"On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century" by Timothy Snyder

It's not very long but worth thinking about.

The site was Ars Technica:

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/11/how-data-heavy-is-siri-on-an-iphone-4s-ars-investigates.ars

A few months ago I stressed out my shoulder. I could barely move my arm. The doctor prescribed a anti-inflammatory, a muscle relaxant and NO computer use. A week later, everything is fine and the doctor gives me the OK to stop taking them.

Since the poll doesn't say continuous medication, I suspect that most of the votes for "Take them seldom - and glad of it" fall into the category I mentioned above.

"will not care what happens 100k years in the future"

100k years in the future we'll be importing water from the Kuiper Belt.